The Diet-Cancer Connection
Eating Your Way to Better Health
By Jennifer Bogo

Excerpt from:
E/The Environmental Magazine

The medical profession has come a long way since Hippocrates first said, "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." Perhaps it's time to take a few steps back. A full third of the 563,000 cancer deaths the American Cancer Society predicts for 1999 will be nutrition-related. In fact, dietary choices are linked to 70 percent of all diseases affecting Americans, yet only 30 of 125 U.S. medical schools require doctors to take a nutrition course. In four years of school, the average physician gets only 2.5 hours of nutritional training...

If the food and health connection were better known, more people might be aware that maitake and shiitake mushrooms stimulate immune function; selenium, a mineral found in grains, seeds and garlic, induces cancer cell death; antioxidants in turmeric, an herb in curry powder, prevent DNA damage and block tumor growth; or that there is actually twice as much calcium, which protects against osteoporosis and colon cancer, in a cup of spinach as a cup of milk...

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